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Zdenka
Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic * Zdenka Braunerová, Czech painter * Zdenka Cecília Schelingová, Slovak nun * Zdenka Fantlová, Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor * Zdenka Grossmannová, Czechoslovak canoer * Zdenka Hradilova, Czechoslovak canoer * Zdenka Kovačiček, Croatian singer * Zdenka Kramplová, Slovak politician * Zdenka Podkapová, Czech model * Zdenka Predná, Slovak singer * Zdeňka Šilhavá, Czech athlete * Zdenka Ticharich, Hungarian pianist * Zdeňka Vávrová, Czech astronomer * Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, Czechoslovakian (Moravian) artistic gymnast ** 3364 Zdenka, an asteroid named for her * ''Zdenka'', fictional character in the opera Arabella ''Arabella'', Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Kovačiček
Zdenka Kovačiček (16 January 1944) is a Croatian jazz and rock vocalist. She remains one of the most prominent musicians on the Croatian music scene. Early life Zdenka Kovačiček was born on 16 January 1944 in Zagreb. Her father was from Tuheljske Toplice and mother from Dubravica. She attended musical high school where she learned to play piano and accordion. At the age of 19, she enrolled in the foreign trade study on her parents wish, but she never graduated due to the lack of interest. She started a career as a child at the Zagreb Youth Theater where she sang and danced. In 1957, she co-founded duo ''Hani'' together with Nada Žitnik. They performed on TV and recorded a movie. Career After duo Hani split in the late 1960s, Kovačiček started a solo career by performing at various European clubs with many successful musicians, including Bill Haley, The Kinks and The Ink Spots. It was then that she became aware of her talent for jazz, soul, and blues. After returning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Braunerová
Zdislava Rosalina Augusta Braunerová, called Zdenka (9 April 1858, Prague - 23 May 1934, Prague) was a Czech landscape painter, illustrator and graphic artist, whose work was influenced by her connection to Paris. She was the first female member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts, and a patron of numerous other Czech artists. Biography She was born into a wealthy family. Her father was , a member of the Imperial Council.Brief biography @ Roztoky.com She developed her interest in art from her mother, Augusta, who was an amateur painter. Prominent writers and artists were regular guests at her home. As her talents became apparent, she began taking lessons from . Later, she studied with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Badovinac
Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer, is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia. She served between 1993 and 2021 as director of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Metelkova Museum of Contemporary Art in Metelkova, an autonomous art, culture, and social center in Ljubljana. Career Badovinac is mostly associated with her long tenure at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, which she directed from 1993 until 2020. Her vigorous curatorial leadership turned the museum into one of Europe's most relevant institutions, generating a dialogue linking the avant-garde traditions with contemporary practices, and promoting a new and complex geopolitical approach to Slovenian art. In December 2020 she was forced to leave by Slovenian's new conservative government. Badovinac has curated numerous exhibitions presenting both Slovenian and international artists. She initiated the first colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Podkapová
Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic * Zdenka Braunerová, Czech painter * Zdenka Cecília Schelingová, Slovak nun * Zdenka Fantlová, Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor * Zdenka Grossmannová, Czechoslovak canoer * Zdenka Hradilova, Czechoslovak canoer * Zdenka Kovačiček, Croatian singer * Zdenka Kramplová, Slovak politician * Zdenka Podkapová, Czech model * Zdenka Predná, Slovak singer * Zdeňka Šilhavá, Czech athlete * Zdenka Ticharich, Hungarian pianist * Zdeňka Vávrová, Czech astronomer * Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, Czechoslovakian (Moravian) artistic gymnast ** 3364 Zdenka, an asteroid named for her * ''Zdenka'', fictional character in the opera Arabella See also * Zdeslava * Zdenko Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. It is the Slavic versio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Predná
Zdenka Predná (31 March 1984) is a Slovak female singer. She is one of the most successful finalists of the Slovak version of the ''Pop Idol,'' called ''Slovensko hľadá Superstar'' for season 2004–2005. Zdenka Predná has recorded two studio albums. Zdenka's vocals also featured on the popular trance track, You, by Robert Burian, which was released in 2010. Discography * 2005 - '' Sunny Day'' * 2007 - '' Zdenka Predná'' * 2009 - '' Srdce z bubliny'' See also * The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of the best album releases issued by Slovak recording artists. As the first such list presented in Slovakia, it was published by ''Nový čas'' daily on 22 September 2007. The list is entirely ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Predna, Zdenka 1984 births Living people 21st-century Slovak women singers People from Banská Štiavnica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabella
''Arabella'', Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Performance history It was first performed on 1 July 1933 at the Dresden Sächsisches Staatstheater. The opera received its premiere in the UK on 17 May 1934 at London's Royal Opera House. Two decades later, on 10 February 1955, it was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Eleanor Steber in the title role. The Met has given numerous performances of the work since that date. At the 2008 Helpmann Awards, the production by Opera Australia won the Award for Best Opera. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Fantlová
Zdenka Fantlová (28 March 1922 – 14 November 2022) was a Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor. Biography Fantlová was born in Blatná on 28 March 1922, and grew up in Rokycany in Czechoslovakia. She and her family, like large parts of the Jewish population in Czechoslovakia, were deported in January 1942 to the ghetto in Theresienstadt, where her boyfriend Arno had also previously been taken. Faced with the prospect of being abducted from Theresienstadt, Arno made a pewter ring with the inscription "Arno 13.6.1942" which he gave to Zdenka as an engagement gift. The next day, Arno was abducted and never seen again. Under difficult circumstances, Zdenka kept the pewter ring as a memento of her youthful love, and it later became part of the title of her autobiography. Fantlová participated in the theatre activities that occurred in Theresienstadt. The ghetto was closed in autumn 1944 and its inhabitants were moved on to other camps. On 17 October 1944, Fantlová and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Ticharich
Zdenka Ticharich (Zdenka von Ticharich) (26 September 1900 – 15 February 1979) was a Hungarian pianist, music educator and composer. Life Zdenka Ticharich was born in Budapest. She studied with István Tomka at the National School of Music, and then with Ferruccio Busoni and Emil Sauer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and composition with Franz Schreker from 1923 to 1925. On March 11, 1929, Ticharich made her American debut at The Town Hall (New York City). Young composers from Schreker's class were popular in concert halls and opera houses in Germany but were forced into exile and their music banned by the Third Reich prior to World War II. From 1947-1969 Ticharich taught piano at the Budapest Academy of Music. She died in Budapest in 1979. ''Capriccio'' by Berthold Goldschmidt Berthold Goldschmidt (18 January 190317 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeňka Vávrová
Zdeňka Vávrová (born 1945) is a Czech astronomer. She co-discovered periodic comet 134P/Kowal-Vávrová. She had observed it as an asteroid, which received the provisional designation 1983 JG, without seeing any cometary coma. However, later images by Charles T. Kowal showed a coma. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 115 numbered minor planets. The Florian main-belt asteroid 3364 Zdenka, discovered by Antonín Mrkos in 1984, was named in her honor and for the 20 years she had been participating in Kleť Observatory's minor planet astrometry Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. It provides the kinematics and physical origin of the Solar System and this galaxy, the Milky Way. Histor ... program. Naming citation was published on 26 February 1994 (). List of discovered minor planets See also * References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdenka Kramplová
Zdenka Kramplová (born 7 August 1957) was Minister of agriculture of Slovakia from 27 November 2007 until 18 August 2008 and former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1997 to 1998. She is a former member of the People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. Mrs. Kramplová studied agriculture in Plovdiv Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ..., Bulgaria (1976–1981). External links Interview 1957 births Living people Foreign Ministers of Slovakia People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia politicians Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2006-2010 Slovak women diplomats Female foreign ministers Women government ministers of Slovakia People from Krupina Female members of the National Council (Slovakia) {{Slovakia-politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
